Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-10-21

we came to the hotel we found old Coupon
pacing up and down the room like lion.
He had crumpled cablegram in his hand.
lie never minded my presence bit (he
never did care for any one but himself,
but he turned to Fanny like a mailman:
ooh, you're here at last, are you? Say!
have you sold any of your railroad stock?"
eyes, father, I've sold it ALL"
'tGreat heavens! Do you mean to tell
me that? What, in the name of all the
fiends, made you do such a thing as that
without consulting me? How dared you
do it?''
You know what Fanny is. She's chip
of the old block, tell you. She stood
there as calm, pulling off her gloves, and
never even turned pale.
sDared?' she said II dared because
it was my own and because am % years
old. That's why I dared. y
Oh! you ought to have heard old Coupon
swear 1t was just dreadful. He brought
down his fist on the table and thought
he would have split it in two
ssYou simpering idiot, you That's what
fool woman knows about businessl 10
90 and sell that stock without saying
- word to me! Lord! Who do you
I thinks got it now?'
81 suppose Skinner, the broker. sold
it to him. He said it wasn't every one
could get stock for thirty-five and sell it
for sixty"
''Sixtyl Sixty devilsl'
ssNo, sixty dollars"
l thought old Coupon would have
struck her. Oh, wasn't he mad. don't
believe either of them remembered l was
in the room. EDO you know" he shouted,
''that that whelp Hartford has got that
stock and that he has his plans laid to
freeze me out? Do you know that you
have ruined one of the most magnificent
railroad deals of the century? Do you
know that if you held on to that stock
three months longer it would have been
worth 10? Do you know that it is ninety
now? Do you see what fool you are and
that you have ruined me?"
Elbow could Hartford have got it when
YOU said yourself that he was a beggar?"
''Beggar be -"(oh, l can't tell you
the perfectly awful language he used).
''Why man who knew where to put his
hand on that stock could have raised the
money for it in ten minutes in Detroit, if
he were ten times beggar"
stDon't you think you could make
terms with Hartford? You used to be
good friends"
Old Coupon sat down and groaned. He
dug his hands in his hair and rested his
his elbows on the table.
s'I'm real sorry" said Fanny; "IH buy
back the stock if you like"
Then old Coupon jumped up and began
pacing up and down and swearing again.
tsHear the simpleton!'' he yelled.
sShell buy it backl Good gracious!
haven't you sense enough to know that
you could as easily buy your way into
heaven? Buy back the stock! l suppose
you think it's like a piece of silk that
they will exchange at the store"
DWELL" said Fanny with sigh, II am
afraid you will have to make some kind
Of terms with Mr.. Hartford. Pm sorry
now we didn't use him better"
Old Coupon looked at her for moment.
s'Fanny," he said, edo you think he
would come over here if you cabled to
him?"
ooh, I couldn't do thing like that.
Not for the world
'sBut by - you must do it, he cried,
bringing his fist down on the table again;
s'you have got me into this middle and it
| is your duty to do anything you can to
get me outs QUIZ.
'sBut, father, # he comes over here-he
that is-if he should"-
ooh, hang it all, don't founder about
like that 1 know what you mean. If
he wants to marry you and won't give up
the stock unless, then you'll have to
| marry him, do you hear? l won't stand
any nonsense. Besides I always did dis
like that rascal
Fanny sighed and said that she would
do so if there was no other way out of it,
And sure enough when he came over there
was no other way out of it, He gave
back the stock to Fanny when they were
married Old Coupon is going to make
him vice president of the road.
'And do you think that Fanny gave
him the''-
sOf course she gave it to him. 1t was
all her scheme and was all arranged be-
fore they left Detroit. 1 tell you that
girl would make her fortune on change.
Besides they''-
At this point there was great applause
and saw Mrs. Fernfield Hoskins bow to
her audience. The people crowded around
her and congratulated her on the dis
| course. My two young ladies pushed up
to the front and I heard Florrie say:
sDear Mrs. Hoskins what q treat you
gave us. 1t seems as if 1 never under
stood Browning until tonight"
Mrs. Fernfield Hoskins was touched by
| this sincere tribute from one so young and
SO beautiful, and she remarked to the
chairman that one of the features that
| made the present age so much superior to
the past, was the interest young and
fashionable people took in the great of
| literature. Sharp in Detroit Free
| Press